Coin Exchange (Audio)

[Keith]

Thanks for posting the link, Keith! Much enjoyed. I was surprised how your voice & rhythm vs. just me reading changed the poem completely. Not in a bad way, just sort of magical and lively, with jig-like qualities. Almost changed it from dark to light? I almost imagined hearing parts of it at a Renaissance Festival.
Very folksy tune!

thank you kindly
nibbed

Thank you nibbed, this was a long time ago, I also like listening to the changes an audio can bring, not enough poets do it IMHO
Best Keith

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What a huge difference between the words on the page and the words through the ear. I like the way your sing-song narrative first sounds unthreatening, like a children's verse - then, somehow, not so nice.

Stealing a chair - taking away the solid ground? For me there's a relationship between the narrator and the person addressed which feels at the same time like a class contrast, and a line from Queen - '...very very frightening...'

Mama mia - I like this. Your voice adds a lot to the words on the page.

Thank you Mercedes this is quite an old one in my short life as a would be poet. I think I was going for a Javert type charater meeting my own Jean Valjean's, good job the film directors didn't hear this, I could have been the next Russell Crowe, oh no hang on, I can sing